About

Silvana Lourdes Pérez Yalán is an executive with over 17 years of professional experience in legal, management and consultancy work at Peruvian and transnational enterprises. Pérez currently serves as the chief compliance officer and legal manager for Komatsu Mitsui Maquinarias Perú (KMMP) a Peruvian joint venture that provides heavy equipment and electric generators for the mining and construction sectors. In this position, she provides legal, corporate management and risk prevention support nationwide, reporting to the executive vice president and board of directors. As the chief compliance officer, Pérez is responsible for the monitoring and control of the compliance program in the corporation as well as all its subsidiaries within the country. When she joined KMMP, her initial objective was to restructure the legal and compliance area by speciality to meet the global requirements of the company: ‘In this way, I have implemented a compliance management system, with mechanisms of due knowledge of the customer, provider and the employee, reporting directly to the board of directors since December 2015, which guarantees and certifies that the organisation carries out its activities in a responsible, ethical and legal manner’, she explains. The implementation of this system also seeks to prevent unlawful acts with criminal responsibility. One of her most notable achievements during the last three years include the management of the risks and their controls with success – at the end of the year there was a reduction in legal cases and the contingencies for the corporation of more than 55%. At present, Pérez is focusing on the anti-bribery management system and is keen to pursue her career development in the field of corporate compliance as an important tool to secure sustainable profits of the corporations. ‘My goal is to improve my understanding of corporate compliance that affect the economic agents in the society. Become an expert in corporate law directly linked with compliance in order to contribute efficiently not only to the well-being of the corporation but also of Latin America market by contributing to the creation and installation of ethical business behaviours, that authentically promote competitiveness, sustainability and economic growth in the economy while containing ethical components that target integral development in our society’.